🇨🇩 DR Congo
Current and comprehensive mining and industrial, market data and investing news in Congo DRC.
- Feb- 2021 -18 FebruaryPolitics
New Congo government should aid release of Kibali’s $500 million, says Barrick CEO
Barrick Gold Corp Chief Executive Mark Bristow said the group expected to get $500 million…
- 16 FebruaryMarkets
Congo averts recession in 2020 thanks to mining sector strength
Democratic Republic of Congo’s economy averted an expected pandemic-induced recession in 2020 to grow 0.8%…
- Jan- 2021 -6 JanuaryCopper
Copper production in Africa is expected to maintain a compound annual growth rate of 4.5% by 2024
Despite the impact of Covid-19 epidemic, copper production in Africa is expected to grow slightly…
- 6 JanuaryBusiness
R&B star Akon enters Congo mining sector in JV with state company
A company led by American-Senegalese R&B singer Akon has signed a deal to finance a…
- Dec- 2020 -18 DecemberProjects
Trafigura’s Congo artisanal cobalt project to end, replaced by industrial mining
Trafigura is ending an artisanal cobalt formalisation project in Democratic Republic of Congo, which it…
- Aug- 2020 -24 AugustMarkets
Glencore makes U-turn to back artisanal mining of cobalt
Glencore Plc, the top cobalt producer, backed a new initiative to support informal miners in…
- 18 AugustBusiness
Ivanhoe Mines and China’s CNMC announce Africa partnership
Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines on Tuesday announced a deal with China Nonferrous Metal Mining (Group) Co.…
- 13 AugustBusiness
Congo to meet miners to debate copper concentrate export waivers
Mining companies and copper and cobalt buyers have been invited to a meeting in Kinshasa…
